Quilt As You Go Placemats From a Jelly Roll!

hi i'm donna jordan from jordan fabrics today i'm going to show you how to take a jelly roll and make some quilt as you go placemats [Music] I'm going to be using a collection of fabrics that are called Evelyn and these are from Windham fabrics and they're really beautiful with large and small roses so I'm gonna take out my strips and I'm going to iron them up a little bit because when you get them out of the package they may be a little wrinkled where they were folded or if your Jelly Roll was rolled they are probably even a little bit more wrinkled so I'm just going to briefly iron some so we don't have to worry about creases I'm going to use fifteen or sixteen different strips to make two placemats so from my whole Jelly Roll I'm probably going to have enough to make four placemats with leftovers to make a matching table round the only other item we need for the placemat is a backing which I cut 15 by 20 inches and then a piece of batting which is a little bit bigger now my strips they all need to be a little bit longer than 15 inches so I've got a little bit extra from each strip so I'm just gonna eyeball it up and I'm just gonna cut off the bottoms of all of these guys so I've now got two strips here and they're about the right size that I need I'm gonna save all of these cut off ends and we will use these at the very end when we make the table runner to match the placemats the first step is to stitch all the way around the edge very close to the edge this is just to keep everything together so I'm about an eighth of an inch from the end now we're going to flip this over and we are going to sew our strips on here and the strip's do not have to be all straight we're going to overlap them a little bit so this is going to end up being a little bit thicker than a quilt would be but that's okay because it's going to be sitting on a table and it's nice if it's kind of stiff so your first strip I'm going to put it on straight and I'm gonna make sure I cover up that stitching there so I've got it a little bit over now I'm gonna pick another strip that's a different color and I'm going to put it right sides on here and I'm gonna make it a little bit crooked and I'm going to just sew a quarter inch in from this top piece so I'm gonna roll this down so it's out of the way and I just need to make sure that I am starting all of my stitching all of my strips beyond this line here [Music] so we are quilting as we go so we are going to have the stitching that we're doing right now go all the way through to the back I'll show you when I get down there and then we won't have to quote this when we're done it's gonna be already quilted so I'm gonna stitch all the way off the edge and then I am going to finger press this open and I'm not even going to trim off this excess the only reason you might want to trim it off if you thought it was going to show through but my top fabric is thick enough and I'm not really seeing any shadowing of green back there so that's what it's gonna look like on the back it's already going to be quilted now we're gonna take another strip and I'm gonna take a different color and again I'm gonna lay it on there just a little bit crooked so I'm gonna be going in like this a little bit and I'm not even gonna go all the way to the edge I'm going to move it back in a little bit again I'm going to stitch a quarter inch in from this piece and every time I'm going to finger press this open to give the placemat a little more interest I like to take some of the strips and cut them in half it doesn't even need to be entirely straight because the outside edges are perfectly straight so I'm just gonna use scissors right here you can't of course pre-cut this with your blade at the table so this is the really straight edge so that's the one I'm gonna put down on here and again I'm going to make it just a little bit crooked on here and sew along the edge [Music] now you're starting to see the pattern making a little bit of a fan shape there now the next piece we put on I'm going to do crooked a little bit the other way so I'm going to put it on like this and stitch along there I'm gonna continue adding pieces on and I'm gonna make some crooked so I'm going to make some crooked this way and some crooked this way and I'm going to use some half pieces and keep going till I've covered up all of the placemat I'm almost to the end here I'm just gonna sew one more strip on and then we will take this over to the cutting table and trim off all the excess so it's exactly rectangular before we trim it we do want to steam press it nice and flat because we were finger pressing it's already pretty flat and I'll show you what it looks like from the back so now you can see all of our quilting lines my thread is matching pretty well but I think you can see it so all of the patchwork on the top is extending beyond to the back and that's okay we are now going to trim the whole thing down to 13 and a half by 18 and 1/2 so it's quite a bit bigger than that now because you know sometimes it'll distort along the edges when you're sewing all those rows I've put the placemat top on my cutting board and I'm just buying up the bottom here so it's pretty much parallel to my lines that are on the board so I'm going to trim this side first and I'm putting the ruler on a line on the board and now I'm going to measure over from that cut 18 and a half inches now I'm gonna make a cut along the bottom pot I didn't catch that all the way go and then I'm gonna measure up thirteen and a half and trim this off now that's what I want it to look like it's abstract it's a little wavy and all we have to do is put some binding on it and it's done now we're going to put binding on these placemats using the exact same method that we would use if we were making a quilt I like to cut my binding two and a half inches iron it in half and then I'm going to stitch using slightly bigger than a quarter inch seam allowance here now I'm gonna stitch to about a quarter-inch a little bigger than a quarter inch from this edge here and then I'm gonna backpack now I'm gonna take this off of the machine turn this fold that so we've got a 45 degree angle right here and it's pointing right to the corner fold it down now I'm going to feel where the fold is and I'm going to kind of draw an imaginary line from that stitching over here and that and I'm gonna start stitching right there now we do have another video that will show you in detail how to put the binding on but I like to sew it from the front and then when I'm all done I'm going to open this up I'm gonna turn it to the back and you can whip stitch that by hand but I like to stitch right in the ditch here on the machine and that will catch the binding on the backside here's the finished placemats really fast and really fun so I got four placemats and they're all made with the same method all a little bit lean looks really good I used the coordinating print on the back side so you could flip them all over and use them from this side if you like now from one whole jelly roll there's a lot more strips so I went ahead and made a matching table runner now you'll notice the table runner has a little bit more of the tan I hadn't used that color in the placemats but I like having a little secondary color in the runner and this is where I used those smaller pieces so some of these are pieced and I think that gives it just a little more interest really fun to make really fast and this all came from one jelly roll plus two yards of fabric to use on the backside and he used about a yard for the binding on all of them thanks for watching our tutorial today on quilt as you go place mats and a table runner all from a jelly roll happy quilting

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Length: 11min 28sec (688 seconds)

Published: Sat May 26 2018